I would like to say that there is a thief of the worst kind in this community plagerism is the worst type of stealing to take someone elses work (and,intellectual property) put your name under it and call it your own is stealing of the highest order i will be posting in the future with sources of all the stolen property

wow pretty cool that you found this injustice....even cooler is the fact that you share it with us ......but I am curious what was the out come? .......after reporting it ......were they made to take it down? or write a retraction? or are we all still reading the same stuff and don't realize it ?

ShadowsAngel

Jun 23 @ 8:46AM

Guess it's a good thing that I have the longhand versions of everything that I have ever posted... oh and the legally held copyright on the two bits of poetry that was my mothers original work as well.

believe me i am a great admirer of all who write and write so well and thyere is no outcome as of yet if it take three days to post a pic i imagine that it will take longer to resolve this more time for my freinds and i to locate the true sources

I believe in open sourcing. That artists should be able to "steal" ideas from one another, but they should still be required to acknowledge the original author. This is, of course for the concept of reworking or rewriting the idea. For example, I may have a great idea for re-writing the "Rime of the Ancient Mariner." I should acknowledge the original author (this works out to be the equivalent of free advertising for him) and if my idea takes off then his will as well.

However copying ideas, or stealing them just for profit based industry (such as advertising) is wrong unless you are providing the artist with just compensation. I could sell a million copies of Edvard Munch's "The Scream", but that's not art...that's just profiteering.